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The Le Souvenir français is responsible for maintaining French war memorials and cemeteries and providing information about war dead. [8] It maintains a list of military personnel determined to have mort pour la France ("died for France"), a designation granted under the French Code des pensions militaires d'invalidité et des victimes de guerre [] ("code for military disability pensions and ...
The rules of the conference allowed France five plenipotentiaries. They became Clemenceau and four others who were his pawns. He excluded all military men, especially Foch. He excluded the president of France, Raymond Poincaré, keeping him in the dark on the progress of negotiations.
French military personnel killed in World War I (206 P) Pages in category "French military personnel of World War I" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 575 total.
A wider listing of all those mort pour la France by Gerard Gehin for Le Souvenir français gives 81 generals. [15] French historian Laurent Guillemot working from a definition similar to Foch gives numbers of 76 British, 42 French, 2 Belgian, 2 Italian, and 2 Romanian generals killed on the Allied side and around 70 German, 40 Austro-Hungarian ...
Joseph Joffre [10] – Commander-in-Chief of the French Army (1914–1916); Marshal of France from the end of 1916; Ferdinand Foch [11] – Commander of French Army Group North (1914–1916), Commander-in-chief and Generalissimo of the Allied Armies (1918); Marshal of France from August 1918
Leader of the Helvetian tribe, Divico defeated a Roman army and killed its leaders Lucius Cassius Longinus and Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus during the Battle of Burdigala. Oenomaus: 1st century BC (died 73/72 BC) Gallic: Gallic gladiator of Capua and leader during the Third Servile War. Crixus: 1st century BC (died 72 BC) Gallic
While the assassinated leader's relatives and socialist activists in Paris and Carmaux were shocked ("They've killed Jaurès"), and some right-wing extremists rejoiced loudly, all historical research shows that the population generally reacted with sadness to an event that symbolized the tipping point into uncertainty and fear of the horrors of ...
Numerous streets and squares in France are named for Jaurès, especially in the south of France, as well as in Vienna , Ghent , Plovdiv , Tel Aviv and Haifa , Buenos Aires , Cluj and also in Germany. Jaurès appears as a character in many period French films and TV series, sometimes as the main subject and sometimes as a supporting character.